During the Vietnam War, the M79 40mm grenade launcher was known to the troops that carried it as the “Blooper” after the noise it made when fired. Currently, U.S. troops carry offshoots of the M79, ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (Sept. 4, 2014) -- How does the warfighter launch a grenade at the enemy and ensure that it hits the target if the enemy is defiladed, or concealed, behind natural or ...

U.S. Army weapons engineers are developing a new 40mm grenade that is designed to explode over enemy fighters hiding behind cover. The Small Arms Grenade Munitions, or SAGM, will be twice as lethal as ...

U.S. Army researchers test fired RAMBO, a 40mm grenade launcher and 40mm grenades that were built using a 3-D printer. The printed grenade launcher, named RAMBO, which stands for Rapid Additively ...

Key point: With the French adoption of an H&K grenade launcher, the company’s grenade launchers arm practically every major military in NATO. The 40mm individual single-shot grenade launcher is one of ...

Sept. 24 (UPI) --American Ordnance has received a $92.3 million contract modification for M918E1 40mm high velocity target practice grenade. M918E1 40mm high velocity grenades are designed ...

November 8, 2016: A Ukrainian firm has developed the RGSh30, a handheld version of the Russian AGS-17 automatic grenade launcher. Introduced in 1974, AGS-17 was grenade launcher weighing 34 kg (75 ...

Raytheon Company successfully fired two new Pike 40 mm precision-guided munitions from a standard tube grenade launcher during flight tests at Mile High Resources in Texas. Both rounds landed within ...

Many observers have indicated dismay that the Colt-Northrop Grumman system lost to the Barrett platform in a recent test. Barrett and MARS were chosen to develop a 30mm grenade rifle system for the ...